H2LOAD(1) nghttp2 H2LOAD(1)NAMEh2load - HTTP/2 benchmarking tool
SYNOPSISh2load [OPTIONS]... [URI]...
DESCRIPTION
benchmarking tool for HTTP/2 and SPDY server
<URI> Specify URI to access. Multiple URIs can be specified. URIs
are used in this order for each client. All URIs are used,
then first URI is used and then 2nd URI, and so on. The
scheme, host and port in the subsequent URIs, if present,
are ignored. Those in the first URI are used solely. Defini‐
tion of a base URI overrides all scheme, host or port values.
OPTIONS-n, --requests=<N>
Number of requests across all clients. If it is used with
--timing-script-file option, this option specifies the number
of requests each client performs rather than the number of
requests across all clients.
Default: 1
-c, --clients=<N>
Number of concurrent clients. With -r option, this speci‐
fies the maximum number of connections to be made.
Default: 1
-t, --threads=<N>
Number of native threads.
Default: 1
-i, --input-file=<PATH>
Path of a file with multiple URIs are separated by EOLs. This
option will disable URIs getting from command-line. If '-' is
given as <PATH>, URIs will be read from stdin. URIs are used
in this order for each client. All URIs are used, then first
URI is used and then 2nd URI, and so on. The scheme, host
and port in the subsequent URIs, if present, are ignored.
Those in the first URI are used solely. Definition of a base
URI overrides all scheme, host or port values.
-m, --max-concurrent-streams=(auto|<N>)
Max concurrent streams to issue per session. If "auto" is
given, the number of given URIs is used.
Default: auto
-w, --window-bits=<N>
Sets the stream level initial window size to (2**<N>)-1. For
SPDY, 2**<N> is used instead.
Default: 30
-W, --connection-window-bits=<N>
Sets the connection level initial window size to
(2**<N>)-1. For SPDY, if <N> is strictly less than 16, this
option is ignored. Otherwise 2**<N> is used for SPDY.
Default: 30
-H, --header=<HEADER>
Add/Override a header to the requests.
--ciphers=<SUITE>
Set allowed cipher list. The format of the string is
described in OpenSSL ciphers(1).
-p, --no-tls-proto=<PROTOID>
Specify ALPN identifier of the protocol to be used when access‐
ing http URI without SSL/TLS. Available protocols: spdy/2,
spdy/3, spdy/3.1, h2c and http/1.1
Default: h2c
-d, --data=<PATH>
Post FILE to server. The request method is changed to POST.
-r, --rate=<N>
Specifies the fixed rate at which connections are cre‐
ated. The rate must be a positive integer, represent‐
ing the number of connections to be made per rate period.
The maximum number of connections to be made is given in
-c option. This rate will be distributed among threads
as evenly as possible. For example, with -t2 and -r4,
each thread gets 2 connections per period. When the rate is
0, the program will run as it normally does, creating connec‐
tions at whatever variable rate it wants. The default value
for this option is 0.
--rate-period=<DURATION>
Specifies the time period between creating connections. The
period must be a positive number, representing the length of
the period in time. This option is ignored if the rate option
is not used. The default value for this option is 1s.
-T, --connection-active-timeout=<DURATION>
Specifies the maximum time that h2load is willing to keep a
connection open, regardless of the activity on said connec‐
tion. <DURATION> must be a positive integer, specifying the
amount of time to wait. When no timeout value is set (either
active or inactive), h2load will keep a connection open
indefinitely, waiting for a response.
-N, --connection-inactivity-timeout=<DURATION>
Specifies the amount of time that h2load is willing to wait to
see activity on a given connection. <DURATION> must be a
positive integer, specifying the amount of time to wait.
When no timeout value is set (either active or inactive),
h2load will keep a connection open indefinitely, waiting for a
response.
--timing-script-file=<PATH>
Path of a file containing one or more lines separated by EOLs.
Each script line is composed of two tab-separated fields. The
first field represents the time offset from the start of execu‐
tion, expressed as a positive value of milliseconds with
microsecond resolution. The second field represents the URI.
This option will disable URIs getting from command-line. If
'-' is given as <PATH>, script lines will be read from stdin.
Script lines are used in order for each client. If -n is
given, it must be less than or equal to the number of script
lines, larger values are clamped to the number of script lines.
If -n is not given, the number of requests will default to the
number of script lines. The scheme, host and port defined in
the first URI are used solely. Values contained in other
URIs, if present, are ignored. Definition of a base URI
overrides all scheme, host or port values.
-B, --base-uri=<URI>
Specify URI from which the scheme, host and port will be used
for all requests. The base URI overrides all values
defined either at the command line or inside input files.
--npn-list=<LIST>
Comma delimited list of ALPN protocol identifier sorted in the
order of preference. That means most desirable protocol comes
first. This is used in both ALPN and NPN. The parameter
must be delimited by a single comma only and any white spaces
are treated as a part of protocol string.
Default: h2,h2-16,h2-14,spdy/3.1,spdy/3,spdy/2,http/1.1
--h1 Short hand for --npn-list=http/1.1
--no-tls-proto=http/1.1, which effectively force
http/1.1 for both http and https URI.
-v, --verbose
Output debug information.
--version
Display version information and exit.
-h, --help
Display this help and exit.
The <DURATION> argument is an integer and an optional unit (e.g., 1s is
1 second and 500ms is 500 milliseconds). Units are h, m, s or ms
(hours, minutes, seconds and milliseconds, respectively). If a unit is
omitted, a second is used as unit.
OUTPUT
requests
total The number of requests h2load was instructed to make.
started
The number of requests h2load has started.
done The number of requests completed.
succeeded
The number of requests completed successfully. Only HTTP
status code 2xx or3xx are considered as success.
failed The number of requests failed, including HTTP level fail‐
ures (non-successful HTTP status code).
errored
The number of requests failed, except for HTTP level
failures. This is the subset of the number reported in
failed and most likely the network level failures or
stream was reset by RST_STREAM.
timeout
The number of requests whose connection timed out before
they were completed. This is the subset of the
number reported in errored.
status codes
The number of status code h2load received.
traffic
total The number of bytes received from the server "on the
wire". If requests were made via TLS, this value is the
number of decrypted bytes.
headers
The number of response header bytes from the server
without decompression. The space savings shows effi‐
ciency of header compression. Let decompressed(headers)
to the number of bytes used for header fields after
decompression. The space savings is calculated by (1 -
headers / decompressed(headers)) * 100. For HTTP/1.1,
this is usually 0.00%, since it does not have header
compression. For HTTP/2 and SPDY, it shows some insight‐
ful numbers.
data The number of response body bytes received from the
server.
time for request
min The minimum time taken for request and response.
max The maximum time taken for request and response.
mean The mean time taken for request and response.
sd The standard deviation of the time taken for request and
response.
+/- sd The fraction of the number of requests within standard
deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of
successful requests.
time for connect
min The minimum time taken to connect to a server.
max The maximum time taken to connect to a server.
mean The mean time taken to connect to a server.
sd The standard deviation of the time taken to connect to a
server.
+/- sd The fraction of the number of connections within
standard deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total
number of successful connections.
time for 1st byte (of (decrypted in case of TLS) application data)
min The minimum time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
max The maximum time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
mean The mean time taken to get 1st byte from a server.
sd The standard deviation of the time taken to get 1st byte
from a server.
+/- sd The fraction of the number of connections within standard
deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of
successful connections.
req/s
min The minimum request per second among all clients.
max The maximum request per second among all clients.
mean The mean request per second among all clients.
sd The standard deviation of request per second among all
clients. server.
+/- sd The fraction of the number of connections within standard
deviation range (mean +/- sd) against total number of
successful connections.
FLOW CONTROLh2load sets large flow control window by default, and effectively dis‐
ables flow control to avoid under utilization of server performance.
To set smaller flow control window, use -w and -W options. For exam‐
ple, use -w16 -W16 to set default window size described in HTTP/2 and
SPDY protocol specification.
SEE ALSOnghttp(1), nghttpd(1), nghttpx(1)AUTHOR
Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
COPYRIGHT
2012, 2015, Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa
1.6.0 December 23, 2015 H2LOAD(1)
